Three Spurious Claims
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Three Spurious Claims

1 John 1:5–2:2  (ID: 1459)

Some people claim that sin doesn’t matter, while others deny that it marks the human condition. In this sermon, Alistair Begg challenges us to consider the biblical truth about sin and the hope that is only found in the Gospel. Scripture teaches that Christians can have confidence that although we sin, our relationship with God is secure: we can experience fellowship with the Father because Christ, our Advocate, pleads on our behalf.

Series Containing This Sermon

A Study in 1 John, Volume 1

Life Assurance 1 John 1:1–3:10 Series ID: 16201


Walking in the Light

5This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Christ Our Advocate

1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Copyright © 2024, Alistair Begg. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.

Alistair Begg
Alistair Begg is Senior Pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Bible teacher on Truth For Life, which is heard on the radio and online around the world.